Raised In A Christian Cult

If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic caused by drivers slowing down to get a glimpse of the accident scene, you know we humans are a nosy bunch.

So it’s no surprise that readers have devoured a steady stream of recent memoirs penned by people who grew up in abusive, controlling fundamentalist sects. We curiously peek into the barbed-wire edges of different faith traditions—Jewish,Mormon, and Christian—from the perspectives of their former members.

I don’t know where you are from, but I live in America where Christianity is the predominant, mainstream religious ideology. So it would make some sense that leaving Christianity would be difficult, especially when you are leaving behind a part of the mainstream society that you also desire to fit in with. What doesn’t make sense to me is how a Christian childhood could possibly be a horror.